Garden Highlights of the Day

Lots of Roses ...

… and a tiny butterfly

A Special Day

Today, is my husband's birthday. I've got his favorite carrot cake baking in the oven right now. We'll enjoy it tonight after coming home from a Peruvian restaurant for his birthday dinner. The first part of the day, we had beautiful sunshine. For the later part we're expecting showers. Earlier, I got outside and took a few photos around the yard. The roses were especially pretty today for Kevin's birthday!

Garden Surprises

Today, when strolling around our backyard gardens, I came across two fun surprises ...

A single pink peony among all the white ones

A lovely little butterfly feeding on chive flower nectar

American Lady Butterfly

More Close-Ups

The fanciful design in foxglove flowers

Skink marking time on our garden sundial

Next Up!

Our garden flowers are going through their seasonal progression. Next to bloom will be:

Foxgloves

Peonies

First rose to open

Chives now in full bloom

Rainy Mother's Day

Our backyard is starting to look like a jungle with all the rain boosting plant growth!

This cottontail bunny was munching on our hill all afternoon … a Mom to be maybe?

🌸HAPPY Mother's DAY!!!

Eye Dazzler

It's been another wet spring this year, and the flowers are loving it. Our rhododendron bush is now in full bloom, and its bright pink blossoms are huge!

Close-Ups

Here are a few photos I took after dinner this evening. Thought they were share-worthy :)

Bumblebee on Columbine

Rhododendron Blooms

Lovely Swallowtail on Azalea

New Moth

This morning, we discovered a colorful pink and yellow moth resting on our back door … and, although fairly common to our area, it's a new one to us. Introducing, the Rosy Maple Moth!

Flower Show

May is the month for flowers. Here are some of our blooming beauties ~

Salmon colored azalea

Purple columbine

Another azalea

Budding chive flowers

Backyard Buddies

This spring, a pair of catbirds set up residence in our backyard. Their calls truly sound like cat meows, and these birds love to "chat." When I'm outside in my garden, they keep a close eye on me and carry on a running conversation. When I was done with my outside work and was back inside my study today, I gazed out my window and discovered one of the catbirds was making good use of the bird bath. He or she was totally immersed in the water, and from all the splashing going on, I would say the catbird totally enjoyed its bath :) A bit later, I went back out to take some photos, and though they're a bit camera shy, I managed to get a few photos of the catbird in the peach tree.